when creating a slide show with selected images from different folders, either I must copy them to one folder and then view as slide show, or create an album/executable. Both involve copying the original files.

What I'd like, is the ability to either: create a "playlist" like with music, with only references to the images, or the ability to make a folder with shortcuts (not necessarily with xnview, can be fileexplorer) and make a slide show from that.